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Purnendu MANDAL

Purnendu Mandal serves as Professor and Head of Department of Information Systems and Analysis at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He is also the director of SAP-University Alliance Programme at Lamar. Prior to that, he was a Professor in MIS, Lewis College of Business, Division of Management & Marketing, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. In 1993-2000, he was a senior lecturer at the School of Engineering and Technology, Deakin University, in Australia.

With more than 20 years of teaching, research and consulting experience in India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, the UK and the US, Dr Mandal's professional interests include information systems development and application, eBusiness, supply chain management, total quality management and system dynamic modelling.

Dr Mandal pioneered the spread of system dynamics (SD) in India and Australasia through the establishment of SD societies and chapter and the organisation of national and international conferences. He has published more than 100 journal and conference articles and serves on the editorial boards of three academic journals. He is a member of Decision Sciences Institute, in which he served on the publication committee (2002-2004) and international affairs committee (2000-2002). Dr Mandal earned his doctorate in system dynamics from the School of Management, University of Bradford, UK.

Programme(s) Taught

Master of Business Administration
Postgraduate Diploma of Business Administration
Master of Management in Information Technology
Postgraduate Diploma of Information Technology Management
Postgraduate Certificate of Information Technology Management
Certificate of Professional Development

Subject(s) Taught

602: Data Analysis for Managers
650: e-Business
660: Operations Management
701: Project Management
751: Enterprise Knowledge Management
770: Information Technology Systems for Business
771: Information Systems Strategy
790: Management Research Project

Professional Affiliations

Member, Decision Sciences Institute
Member, Association of Computing Machinery
Member, Association of Information Systems
Member, Systems Dynamics Society, MIT
Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust, CPEng)
Corporate Member, Institution of Engineers (India)
Member, Operations Research Society of India

Professional Activities

Publication Committee Member, Decision Sciences Institute (2002-2004)
Member of the Strategic Planning for International Affairs Committee, Decision Sciences Institute (2000-2002)
External Assessor of Master of Engineering Management Program Proposal, submitted to Minnesota State College and Universities system by the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, St Cloud State University (April 2002)
Panel Member, New Faculty Development Consortium, Decision Sciences Institute Conference, San Antonio (November 2006)
Track Chair, International Business, Southwest DSI Conference (2005)
Member, Information Technology Committee, Decision Sciences Institute (2003-2005)
Member of the Publication Committee, Decision Sciences Institute (2002-2004)
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Information Systems & Change Management
Asia-Pacific Regional Editor, International Journal of System Dynamics and Policy Planning
Review Board Member, Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM)
Reviewer, Logistics Information Management, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, System Dynamics: An International Journal of Policy Modelling
Conference Paper Reviewer, annual meetings of the Decision Sciences Institute, ICIS, AMCIS, IRMA conferences, annual conferences of System Dynamics Society, International Conference of Systems Thinking in Management, Australian Conference of Information Systems
Organising Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management (2004)

Selected/Recent Publications

Laha, D., & Mandal, P. (2007). Handbook of computational intelligence in manufacturing and production management. Idea Group Reference.
Rao, M., & Mandal, P. (2007). Information technology in Maquiladoras: an exploratory study of usage and perceptions. International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 3(4), 51-68.
Mandal, P. (2006). Behavioral factors and information technology infrastructure considerations in strategic alliance development, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 2(4), 81-92.
Laha, D., & Mandal, P. (2007). Improved heuristically guided genetic algorithm for the flowshop scheduling problem. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 3(3), 316-331.
Mandal, P., Agarwal, A., & Shankar, R. (2006). Effectiveness of information systems in supply chain performance: a system dynamics study. International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 1(3), 241-261.
Mandal, P., & Barua, P. (2006). Managing water resources using a SD-DSS model. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of Decision Sciences Institute, San Antonio.
Mandal, P., & Venta, H. (2005). Business practices and performance in US manufacturing companies. Proceedings of the 2005 Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.
Cavaliere, F., Mandal, P., & Barnes, C. (2005). Can company e-mail avoid becoming evidence mail? Proceedings of the 2005 Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.
Barua, P., Mandal, P., & Goswami, R. (2005). A web based decision support system for analyzing water resources management policy. Proceedings of the 2005 Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.
Mandal, P., Kuruppuarachchi, P., & Smith, R. (2005). Recipe for success: an integrated approach. Journal of the Australian Institute of Project Management, 25(2), 15-17.
Mandal, P., Shao, D., & Kim, C. (2005). Behavioral factors in strategic alliances. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, I-V, 243-247.
Mandal, P., & Shao, D. (2004). Global reach for a community: experiences of a university - community collaboration. Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 2(4).
Mandal, P. (2004). Global issues in e-Business. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Special Issue - Cross-Country Analysis of e-Business, 7(2).
Mandal, P., Love, P.E.D., & Irani, Z. (2003). Pre-alliance planning: development of an information system infrastructure to support strategic alliance activities. Management Decision, 41(2), 132-140.
Mandal, P. (2003). IT architecture in strategic alliance negotiations: a case. In Kangas, K. (Ed.), Business strategies for information technology management (pp. 74-85). Irm Press.
Kim, C., Mandal, P., & Shao, D. (2003). Role of behavioral factors in strategic alliances. In Gordon, S. (Ed.), Computing information technology: the human side (pp. 233-251). Irm Press.
Mandal, P. (2003). Pre-alliance planning: development of an information system infrastructure to support strategic alliance activities. Management Decision, 41(2), 132-140.
Mandal, P. (2003). Issues in implementing ERP. European Journal of Operational Research, 146(2), 274-283.
Mandal, P. (2003, November). Issues in medical information systems. Proceedings of Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Washington DC.
Mandal, P., & Shao, D. (2003, June). Aspiring global exposure through website design. Proceedings of the Global Information Technology Management (GITM) World Conference, Calgary, Canada.

Selected/Recent Presentations

Mandal, P. (2004, 28-31 December). Perceived benefits of IT in supply chain systems - a system dynamics modeling approach. 2nd AIMS International Conference on Management, Calcutta.
Mandal, P., & Natarajan, N. (2004, November). A framework for adoption and diffusion of IT in healthcare. Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Boston, 3181-3186.
Rao, M., & Mandal, P. (2004, November). An exploratory study of e-Commerce in Maquiladoras. Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Boston, 4151-4156.
Mandal, P. (2004, 19-21 May). The role of information in systems thinking. 3rd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Mandal, R., Chandra, A., & Mandal, P. (2003, March). A comparative analysis of childhood obesity trends in the United States, Canada and Thailand. 39th Annual MBAA Meeting, Chicago.
Mandal, P. (2003, March). Integrating ERP implementation with change management process. 39th Annual MBAA Meeting, Chicago (received 2003 MBAA McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award from the Society for the Advancement of Information Systems).
Mandal, P. (2002, November). A model to minimize resistance to change in information and communication projects. Decision Sciences Institute Conference, San Diego, California.
Mandal, P. (2002, 25-26 November). Impact of workforce development and advanced manufacturing technologies on organizational performance. Decision Sciences Institute, San Diego, California.